Rubio says US will ‘have to reexamine’ Nato relationship

America, the place with the most billionaires and yet the country can't pay it's own bills.

Already insolvent I read

Always assume an well articulated person will sell me out for a buck oh five

Money. Members of Congress make bank.

You have a chance for inside trade and get rich, so there is that.

Checks and Balances in the US is propaganda lie taught in US schools to indoctrinate people into thinking the US is better than all other countries. We've found out over the last decade that it was all a lie and what was really going on is everyone was operating in good faith because the US was operated by better people. Our checks an balances are actually incredibly weak. Even the Supreme Court keeps saying the main check is for congress to impeach a president, but that is an entirely political process that requires 2/3rds of congress to approve, its basically asking a political party to voluntarily convict itself because the US effectively is a 2 party split congress country. It's a f****** joke. On top of it the Supreme Court granted immunity from prosecution for most acts of the president, immunity from disclosure of any communications and records between staff from within an administration, and even bars congress or courts from even PROBING what the intent was behind actions of an administration. It's why we'll never know the true reason why they started this war was, because presidential administrations no longer have to disclose it even when questioned by congress or in courts. This is complete 180 from the Iraq war where Bush administration officials had to disclose under oath the decision making behind the war, and we found out they purposely manufactured lies to justify it. If Watergate happened now, no way would Nixon had stepped down or be removed. In fact, the above ruling making records of communications within an administration off limits from congress and courts means the Nixon Tapes would have never been a thing made public.

Cultural and systemic in my opinion. It's a cycle. The rich feed the poor the story of building them up (systemic), the poor believe it (cultural), vote in the rich who lied to them, and then they make stuff shittier. Honestly, people play too hard into the "Russian people are just lost causes. They're all too used to the oppression and only care to drink and pass the days because they know nothing better is coming" Does that not sound like the general American population? We're just like Russia. Through and through.

“For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.” - Stuart Chase You're dealing purely with beliefs and feelings, there's no arguing and therefore... how do you even start to convince them? I'm from Germany and speaking from history: Germans were convinced by a completely bombed out country, splitting of the country and occupation by 4 different countries. Good luck.

This is kind of important, because it holds accountable the opposition for failing to present a message some of these people could believe in, and also contrasts Trump with previous politicians who have also attempted to create cults of personality, but failed. I don't think people want to closely examine the latter because it almost seems like it's giving Trump credit, but God f****** damn, how the f*** else do you explain this? No other politician I can remember had this kind of effect on so many people. This sort of shit used to happen in local politics all the time, but never on a national level.

American speed running the lead right into the ground.